After finished studying philosophy
in 1988, had a brief stint as a taxi driver in
northern Virginia.
Eventually found work in the accounting department of an airline services
company.

Got sick of that and eventually left work to go
back to school to learn about
information systems and software engineering in mid 1994.

Started working as a software engineer in 1996 at
Pure Software's Performix
unit in McLean, Va. Left school with one class left when they relocated
the family and me to
California
in June 1996. Pure became PureAtria and later,
in August 1997, PureAtria was acquired by
Rational Software.
Worked on client-server load testing applications empower and Performix
(which were supposedly integrated into the Rational products
preVue and
SiteLoad)
(Rational links will eventually start failing since they were acquired by
IBM).

At the start of 2000, jumped ship and began working on the
BeatnikPlayer
browser plugins and ActiveX control (in particular, the
XPCOM
and Mac IE ports) and contributed to the Mozilla
effort. After Beatnik Player was EOL, joined the Beatnik Core Engineering team and
went on to work on the Beatnik Audio Engine,
mobileBAE,
Mobile Sound Builder and
Player for Mobile Audio.

In March 2005, dived back into
Whole Tomato Software but have
stayed out of the living room this time around.

• Recalcitrance (defunct) >>
I used to play guitar in an instrumental trio that spun out a hyper frenzy of tangled space-slop.
• Paradigm Shift >> my solo instrumental synth doodlings.
Only available recording is on the
Dark Self Instrumentals: DC Compilation 2 1/2
Washington, DC compilation tape put together in 1995 by DSI Records.